Tuesday, September 25, 2007
We stole a continent; let us stop stealing wetlands.They saved New Orleans
until recently when too much building has prevented the wetlands forming its natural barrier to storms and hurricanes; where previously the water could stand and sink slowly, while so much animal and plant life thrived in these bayous. Moderate our greed; we always had land hunger (never land...
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Sunday, September 23, 2007
sinking in the waves of a tropical ocean
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Anas_formosa_%28Aqua_zoo%29.jpg The endangered duck (LAYSAN TEAL) of Hawaii is making good on its home at Midway? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Laysan_teal_male.jpg/800px-Laysan_teal_male.jpg
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Friday, September 21, 2007
perhaps i might rename this baby BLOG BONSAI? What light breaks!
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/118/281221790_1f9d6296cb.jpg ANSWER this yearning, endless searching is for a place a lost, pristine place with echoes of eden a real place where corporations lack a face where capital forgot to destroy this magical green
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
Civil Injustice?People sick&tired of double standards:Libby&Vick&OJ- Jena6
"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?" ~ Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, 1801 AMERICA, AMERICA! Cradle of modern freedom, thou art Mother, Mother, so biased at heart You birthed so many...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Poem for a Friend who is Longing for Blogit Days
we met along a deserted path in winter a few leaves quietly rustled on beeches others criss-crossed at our feet as we smiled you were heading for your car, and I to the lake i was trying to figure out my past mistake we smiled shyly as we passed, not quite ships ignoring each other in the thick of...
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Monday, September 17, 2007
Oman & OCEANIA yield a "canoe" of "manioc, Noni, cocoa, manna." Others?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Nauru_Island_under_attack_by_Liberator_bombers_of_the_Seventh_Air_Force..jpg OCEANIA/OCEANICA: term first used in nineteenth century by French, it tyopically includes the islands of the South Pacific along with New Zealand, Australia and sometimes...
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Exposing US to other countries: O for "Oman & Oceania" (NZ, Australia etc)
Oman senryu ancient trade, habits... musical names like Muscat what lies below sand? Vocab challenge: make lists of four-letter & longer words from the clue-letters "O M A N O C E A N I A." Just a game, just a fun way to test another side of your brain.Health&Joy...
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Sunday, September 16, 2007
Polar Bear cries out/I don't care: You are not mine/I save dogs and cats
TICKETS ON SALE NOW! Sept. 14-16, 2007, Washington, DC IFG Teach-in: Confronting the Global Triple Crisis - Climate Change, Peak Oil, Global Resource Depletion & Extinction haiku/senryu polar bear cries out: "I don't care; you are not mine... I save dogs and cats."
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Friday, September 14, 2007
Vocab: NETHERLANDS/Netherladnse lys. Next OMAN & OCEANIA (too few in OMAN)
N E T H E R L A N D S 01-10: Dear, EAST, real, DALE, dales, DANE, danes, deals, anther, ANTHERS 11-20: land, LANDS, seal, lender, slander, slender, 'neath, LATHE, lathes, THEN 21-30: thens (?) THAN, leers, thane, THANES, tease, LEASE, these, there's, THERE, deal 35-40: sand, rand, RANDS, rend,...
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Thursday, September 13, 2007
Nicaragua_Netherlands_Nigeria_Nauru ...ponder a clue for vocab game; Verse
http://www.oism.org/nwss/nw149.jpg Peace, a shame: From lofty heights, to the shallows How this word, this goal, has fallen Peace - we longed for thee not long ago When Popes or Kings or tyrants reigned demanding crops, service, labor at whim Paying for forgiveness, or condemned in sin We shied away...
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